The World Bacterial Biogeography and Biodiversity through Databases: A Case Study of NCBI Nucleotide Database and GBIF Database

Table 4

Occurrences of records by continent for both NCBI Nucleotide and GBIF databases.

Continents	GBIF	%	Assigned	% assigned	NCBI	%	Assigned	% assigned
AMERICA	481976	39.435	421526	87,458	1200669	51.701	634225	52,823
AFRICA	42289	3.460	37972	89,792	55796	2.403	39723	71,193
EUROPE	335373	27.440	306014	91,246	371561	15.999	214725	57,790
ASIA	143984	11.781	126967	88,181	504874	21.740	341823	67,705
AUSTRALIA-OCEANIA	204615	16.741	182665	89,273	96073	4.137	72257	75,211
ANTARCTICA	13979	1.144	13363	95,593	93366	4.020	8296	8,885
Total	1222216		1088507		2322339		1311049